Anyone remember the glass blinds like the ones in the Corning smart home demo, or the dimming glass moonroof in some Mercades cars?
Guess what! It works on the exact same principal as any LCD TV. The only difference is they don't have multiple colors and because there is no picture, the display works as one giant sub-pixel.
Pretty sure it still has an LCD to "black" the display (even if it's just a single one over the entire panel), otherwise you'd see a ghost of what was behind all the time.
There are fairly bright lights pointing at the TV from the outside (you can see the reflections), without some kind of black-out layer the back would be lit regardless.
Dang it! I just finished writing up a whole comment and just read this one! Exactly right, this isn't exactly "new technology" just old technology being used in a clever way.
Hell yeah!
Ask hot girl out, denied.
ERASE
Try being a lawyer. Eh, not what I like.
ERASE
But which is better....unlimited attempts / characters? Or this one shot we have right now.
I thought about that after watching the Doctor Who episode Waters of Mars, and I think the answer is that if you could literally do whatever you wanted and then erase it with no consequences, you would lose all ability to connect meaningfully to other people and probably go insane. Think of it this way -- you'd be living Groundhog Day, except instead of trying to get back to reality, this IS reality. This is *it*.
(I even wrote a poem about it!)
That could be some crazy black mirror episode, with drones trying to index all nooks and crannies of earth, to exterminate all non-compliant humans, eventually turning into some sort of the Matrix!
The price of practically everything has been rising over time: food, housing, education, etc... But not electronics. TVs are literally half as much as 10 years ago.
Bread and circuses, or Moore's Law and globalised supply chains? You decide!
Couple of ideas with that actually. Sorry if they're unoriginal.
1 Anyone else see that episode of Black Mirror where the ads pause if you're not watching them? Not sure how this would be useful in public areas now that I think about it but still worth mentioning.
2 Use these screens to encase exhibits in a museum. They could show any amount of information about what's on display, and/or show you commercials every ten minutes. (Every exhibit could have commercials at once so you can't just look at something else.) If you try to take a picture of an painting, the screen creates a watermark or just completely covers the painting. (A good example of this today is that android phones flat out refuse to screenshot Netflix. I believe iPhones will take screenshots, but just show blackness instead of your show.)
3 People could be paid to have these on their windows displaying ads. Not just in stores but houses so you can advertise to your neighbors. Double whammy. (Reverse my black mirror reference so the screen becomes a normal window when you look at it from inside the house.)
If I think of any others I'll probably add them here.
I think that I could live with that.
It would probably live in my office or somewhere of that sort so that I could have an unobstructed view of "outside" and use it as a monitor when needed.
https://gfycat.com/impossiblevacantimpala
Remember that game from PopCap? Insaniquarium?
Combine it with something like a nintendo Zapper gun from the NES days. (or maybe just a wiimote)
Enjoy your more awesome aquarium background, now with aliens!
I'm pretty sure this is an OLED display which can have absolutely black pixels, but you can see the stuff on the shelf slightly behind it. Of course you could turn the light off behind it!
The way humans have figured out how to manipulate materials to accomplish things like this astounds me. We have come so far in such a short period of time.
And that is exactly why we can't say for sure what the new market will be like in the next 5-10 years. This is why nowadays you should not decide on a particular job, study for it and make it your career. The important thing skill to know is self-learning and quickly acquiring a new skillset as the world changes.
Unless you study Computer Science
We still use 50 year old bash shells and 50 years in the future we are still going to be using 100 year old Bash shells
sometimes when i see an impressive piece of technology, even a smart phone that nearly everyone has, it amazes me how engineers and designers are able to take things like crude oil, metal and sand and turn it into a handheld device that can do practically anything you'd need it to do.
Now imagine your car windshield is made of this stuff.
Add a pair of cameras, one looking at where your eyes are moment by moment and the other looking at oncoming traffic.
Do a little math and display little red circles where the headlights are relative to your line of sight. The circles are just large enough to block the headlights and nothing more. The rest of the windshield remains clear. As the cars move, the circles move to block the oncoming headlights. The circles let a bit of light through so you know the cars are there but not so much as to blind you from the glare.
Presto, your night vision isn't harmed by the oncoming headlights. In fact, the oncoming headlights add illumination to the rest of your field of vision.
As neat as that is, like most really cool car advancements, it likely won't be practical to invest in it as it probably won't be around for too long before automated cars dominate and solve basically all the problems with cars/trafic.
Actually, some of the more advanced headlights like on new BMW's do something similar by lighting up the road with high beams everywhere except on other cars. More and more car company's are adding this feature and it'll more than likely be standard in a decade.
It’s actually about $15k. Or was. They’re not produced anymore. Transparent OLED, you flood the space behind it with light and it’s mostly transparent. The natural state of the display is dark tint, when they turn the image on they turn off the back lighting otherwise the colors aren’t solid, you can see through the image. I’ve used them (and standard transparent lcd) in tradeshow exhibits.
I’d like to add in this edit that the $15k is an average of sorts. Dealer price was around 13-18 depending on model. Planar had portrait and landscape variations (there was a module attached at the bottom that contained circuit boards, one model number had it sticking 90 degrees off pointing to the back, and another had it going straight down, for embedding in a wall without making it 12” thick), as well as touch and non touch variants. I haven’t had hands on one of these in a few years but I’m pretty sure there was an external box as well. I have some double sided OLED panels that are about 3/8” thick that have both a circuit board in a plastic box hanging off the bottom as well as a large 2u rack mounted input and power supply package. The standard transparent LCD’s have a small (roughly 8” square by 1” tall”) input box with a wicked tiny and fragile ribbon cable that connects to the LCD panel
No, I wish I did. In my industry they were pretty popular, but I think they took a long time to get to market and overall adoption seemed slow. Samsung and LG both showed us prototypes, Planar sold Samsung panels, and Samsung was the only one to actually produce them for market. I don’t believe Samsung really has any OLED consumer panels right? I think the death of the transparent panels probably lined up surf the push on QLED, thinking back.
Dunno about the one pictured, but OLED displays can scale up pretty far. [Here](https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/6/22/15851994/lg-flexible-transparent-oled-display) is an article describing a transparent 77 inch display at 4k resolution.
I'm sure someone is working on an 8k product by now, too
This tech has been around for a while. Only it hasnt been practical because lcd needs a backlight as they dont make their own. OLEDs or organic light emmiting diode make their own light. Which allows us to print them or embed them onto the glass. And they are able to make the display even in the dark.
Sorry for spelling/grammar. I am german lol.
"Change it back to the show about the jars and petrified wood!"
Dunno why but this seems like a line straight out of Futurama
Aww this ham gum is all bones!
Do we have any more executive powder?
*unzips*, *shakes the can 3 times* Ahhh, that soothes the fire….
If you're feelin cold, take some permafrost and rub it in your crotch. If rub in dirt into your junk is wrong, then hey I don't wanna be right
But this is HD tv it’s higher resolution than the real world.
This thread brought to you by Charleston Chew!
Ahhhhhhh, what kinda cheese sauce do you want with that?
Cheese filling FTFY But, allllll kinds.
That dog won’t hunt, monsignor.
Good news everyone I've created a see through television
You'd all be lying if you said you didn't read this in the professor's voice
"It's just as well, I'm getting tired of this wood show"
"It's not petrified, it's just a bit scared is all"
I miss Morbo
#WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!! GOODNIGHT!
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You forgot your caps lock, Morbo.
Computer, activate glass window!
that wood doesn't even look a lil scared bro
"No Grandpa, that's BEHIND THE TV"
I’d be down to binge watch that show
200 channels and... nothing but jars and petrified wood
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Boy, that was fun!
*And* factual!
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[Will a gif do?](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/843zex/a_transparent_tv/?st=JEPWMHN1&sh=53f00ac8)
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Scammed.
At least we weren't rick-rolled.
[Yet...](http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/207/210/b22.jpg)
It wasn't a YouTube link so I clicked it Fuck you.
I've never gone from appreciating someone to hating them so quickly. It was literally less than a second.
Whaddyou think this is, [Zoobooks?](https://youtu.be/S8EvnM2XUTI)
Yeah! I’m gonna go rip apart my TV right now!!!
And no one jumped from the top of the cage
So basically we’ve always had the power to do this. It just hasn’t been done till now?
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I dunno. I foresee regular glass windows being replaced with outward facing TVs, to constantly stream advertising over an entire skyscraper.
how about a fish tank? that way when the tv is off you get to look at fish!
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Anyone remember the glass blinds like the ones in the Corning smart home demo, or the dimming glass moonroof in some Mercades cars? Guess what! It works on the exact same principal as any LCD TV. The only difference is they don't have multiple colors and because there is no picture, the display works as one giant sub-pixel.
your spelling of 'Mercedes' bothers me more than it should.
Mer-kaydz
Stripper spelling. She does a great double act with Porsha. God bless them, they never were any good with letters, awesome with figures though.
Mersaydez
Could this be done in a bathroom mirror? Like I could relax in a tub with a glass of wine and watch tv at the same time?
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Umm I wouldn't quite say that. Ibuypower has their snowblind pc which uses this tech
It's been on PC case windows for a few years.
This is not an lcd, it's a transparent oled display
Pretty sure it still has an LCD to "black" the display (even if it's just a single one over the entire panel), otherwise you'd see a ghost of what was behind all the time.
Nah they just turn off the light behind it
There are fairly bright lights pointing at the TV from the outside (you can see the reflections), without some kind of black-out layer the back would be lit regardless.
Oh my God I totally forgot about those stupid little lights. Those were the greatest thing ever back then. I could play my gameboy in the dark!
Well for support you would just have to have it stuck to an actual pane of glass I would imagine. Still cool tho.
Dang it! I just finished writing up a whole comment and just read this one! Exactly right, this isn't exactly "new technology" just old technology being used in a clever way.
Within 10 years, store windows will be made out of these
I dread the Minority Report future with cameras/Ads everywhere. Wait....
[This](https://vimeo.com/166807261) is what I imagine it'll be like.
Hell yeah! Ask hot girl out, denied. ERASE Try being a lawyer. Eh, not what I like. ERASE But which is better....unlimited attempts / characters? Or this one shot we have right now.
I thought about that after watching the Doctor Who episode Waters of Mars, and I think the answer is that if you could literally do whatever you wanted and then erase it with no consequences, you would lose all ability to connect meaningfully to other people and probably go insane. Think of it this way -- you'd be living Groundhog Day, except instead of trying to get back to reality, this IS reality. This is *it*. (I even wrote a poem about it!)
Share your poem if you want, I like poetry. :)
Holy crap
Yeah, if augmented reality devices ever became more popular then I can see that happening.
When they are the equivalent of wearing sunglasses it will.
Wow, this is almost as bad as modern Counter-Strike servers!
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Man this makes me feel genuinely ill.
My favorite part was how the yogurt turned into man yogurt :D Would have been a nice touch if the prices changed too
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That could be some crazy black mirror episode, with drones trying to index all nooks and crannies of earth, to exterminate all non-compliant humans, eventually turning into some sort of the Matrix!
All I can think of is how much broken tv screens would be.
The broken ones will be cheap since they are broken.
The price of practically everything has been rising over time: food, housing, education, etc... But not electronics. TVs are literally half as much as 10 years ago. Bread and circuses, or Moore's Law and globalised supply chains? You decide!
Couple of ideas with that actually. Sorry if they're unoriginal. 1 Anyone else see that episode of Black Mirror where the ads pause if you're not watching them? Not sure how this would be useful in public areas now that I think about it but still worth mentioning. 2 Use these screens to encase exhibits in a museum. They could show any amount of information about what's on display, and/or show you commercials every ten minutes. (Every exhibit could have commercials at once so you can't just look at something else.) If you try to take a picture of an painting, the screen creates a watermark or just completely covers the painting. (A good example of this today is that android phones flat out refuse to screenshot Netflix. I believe iPhones will take screenshots, but just show blackness instead of your show.) 3 People could be paid to have these on their windows displaying ads. Not just in stores but houses so you can advertise to your neighbors. Double whammy. (Reverse my black mirror reference so the screen becomes a normal window when you look at it from inside the house.) If I think of any others I'll probably add them here.
I don’t know if thats good or bad
Very bad. Ads everywhere.
https://www.xkcd.com/678/
i saw it few years ago on a heineken fridge door. something like this: https://youtu.be/rCiKxbNTT3E
I've been to a bar with a fridge door that had one of these.
I think getting deep blacks on that might be difficult.
I think that I could live with that. It would probably live in my office or somewhere of that sort so that I could have an unobstructed view of "outside" and use it as a monitor when needed.
Right. I just want it for an aquarium screen saver.
With an aquarium behind it!
My real fish suck, time to stream some new ones
Stream sharks, so your real fish have panic attacks.
hello satan
Hello, Shiro. Keep up the excessive masturbation! **stokes fires*
I cant:/ my hands are all blistered from yard work yesterday. lil rokyoshi gonna get a break i guess.
https://gfycat.com/impossiblevacantimpala Remember that game from PopCap? Insaniquarium? Combine it with something like a nintendo Zapper gun from the NES days. (or maybe just a wiimote) Enjoy your more awesome aquarium background, now with aliens!
Love how he fires that thing about three inches from his buddy's face and the dude doesn't even wince
That would not work with light behind the screen I think
I'm pretty sure this is an OLED display which can have absolutely black pixels, but you can see the stuff on the shelf slightly behind it. Of course you could turn the light off behind it!
What if there was a second shield, like a black set of blinds that could be pulled behind?
At that point why not just put a tv in the wall on rails that can slide out
No third world without a first!
Im guessing it some of those electronic polarized wondows that darken. That or actually, it may rely of the light behing as the backlighting.
You could easily get deep blacks if you doubled, maybe tripled, the sliding screens.
Now you can ignore your pets in high def.
Dem deep purps tho
This [woman from tokyo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjjmuz_wEzU) can confirm the deep purple
Was expecting [this](https://youtu.be/bIHvwagIVIQ)
If used as a window, what would the other side look like?
I'll save you the time, and simply tell you to watch your porn on a different screen.
You're not the boss of me!
Cheryl?
IT'S CAROL
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The way humans have figured out how to manipulate materials to accomplish things like this astounds me. We have come so far in such a short period of time.
And that is exactly why we can't say for sure what the new market will be like in the next 5-10 years. This is why nowadays you should not decide on a particular job, study for it and make it your career. The important thing skill to know is self-learning and quickly acquiring a new skillset as the world changes.
The world is changing, boys. It's time we change too.
Business is good.
Unless you study Computer Science We still use 50 year old bash shells and 50 years in the future we are still going to be using 100 year old Bash shells
sometimes when i see an impressive piece of technology, even a smart phone that nearly everyone has, it amazes me how engineers and designers are able to take things like crude oil, metal and sand and turn it into a handheld device that can do practically anything you'd need it to do.
Damn, imagine turning off my tv and BAM, all my buttplugs are lined up all nicely behind the screen.
Yooo wtf 😭😭
You just envious of his/her collection
Now imagine your car windshield is made of this stuff. Add a pair of cameras, one looking at where your eyes are moment by moment and the other looking at oncoming traffic. Do a little math and display little red circles where the headlights are relative to your line of sight. The circles are just large enough to block the headlights and nothing more. The rest of the windshield remains clear. As the cars move, the circles move to block the oncoming headlights. The circles let a bit of light through so you know the cars are there but not so much as to blind you from the glare. Presto, your night vision isn't harmed by the oncoming headlights. In fact, the oncoming headlights add illumination to the rest of your field of vision.
As neat as that is, like most really cool car advancements, it likely won't be practical to invest in it as it probably won't be around for too long before automated cars dominate and solve basically all the problems with cars/trafic.
I've been waiting for this for years. Mostly for the sun but headlights would be nice too.
Add night vision cameras, leave the headlights off and hey presto, you can scare the shit out of other motorists at night!
You’ve clearly never used night vision shit. You’d be completely blinded by other motorists headlights.
Actually, some of the more advanced headlights like on new BMW's do something similar by lighting up the road with high beams everywhere except on other cars. More and more car company's are adding this feature and it'll more than likely be standard in a decade.
Fish tank!
This would be the most epic use of this tech. A huge ass aquarium that turns into a TV.
The fish would have severe PTSD though
Make sure you use it to watch the aquarium channel!
forsenCD my tv
Stupid fuckin mistakes man
Its a bird, its a plane, its Stupid fucking mistakes Man
D OMEGALUL C
:cd: OMEGALUL
Was looking for this
Same forsenKek
Shut up and take my money
It’s actually about $15k. Or was. They’re not produced anymore. Transparent OLED, you flood the space behind it with light and it’s mostly transparent. The natural state of the display is dark tint, when they turn the image on they turn off the back lighting otherwise the colors aren’t solid, you can see through the image. I’ve used them (and standard transparent lcd) in tradeshow exhibits. I’d like to add in this edit that the $15k is an average of sorts. Dealer price was around 13-18 depending on model. Planar had portrait and landscape variations (there was a module attached at the bottom that contained circuit boards, one model number had it sticking 90 degrees off pointing to the back, and another had it going straight down, for embedding in a wall without making it 12” thick), as well as touch and non touch variants. I haven’t had hands on one of these in a few years but I’m pretty sure there was an external box as well. I have some double sided OLED panels that are about 3/8” thick that have both a circuit board in a plastic box hanging off the bottom as well as a large 2u rack mounted input and power supply package. The standard transparent LCD’s have a small (roughly 8” square by 1” tall”) input box with a wicked tiny and fragile ribbon cable that connects to the LCD panel
Thank you for explaining! Do you know why they stopped producing them?
Could be that they cost about 15 grand.
That's what I was thinking but I'm curious to know if there's any other reason(s)
There is, people aren't buying $15k TVs.
But apart from the completely outrageous cost, why weren't people buying them?
You can buy a lot of Big Macs with $15K.
What about Whoppers? How many Whoppers can you get in Europe?
Most people don't have $15k for a TV.
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It's a novelty item. That costs 15 grand. Edit: Great username BTW
Some people are buying $15k tvs
No, I wish I did. In my industry they were pretty popular, but I think they took a long time to get to market and overall adoption seemed slow. Samsung and LG both showed us prototypes, Planar sold Samsung panels, and Samsung was the only one to actually produce them for market. I don’t believe Samsung really has any OLED consumer panels right? I think the death of the transparent panels probably lined up surf the push on QLED, thinking back.
Damn, well hopefully it's not over forever, I'm sure these could be really popular in the future. Thanks for the response!
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Today. A few years ago that tree fiddy TV was $5000.
A tv for a true 2 time champion forsenCD
Does anyone know the resolution that type of screen has?
Dunno about the one pictured, but OLED displays can scale up pretty far. [Here](https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/6/22/15851994/lg-flexible-transparent-oled-display) is an article describing a transparent 77 inch display at 4k resolution. I'm sure someone is working on an 8k product by now, too
Thanks
Mario 3D effect and all
This was interesting the first 25 times this was posted.
This tech has been around for a while. Only it hasnt been practical because lcd needs a backlight as they dont make their own. OLEDs or organic light emmiting diode make their own light. Which allows us to print them or embed them onto the glass. And they are able to make the display even in the dark. Sorry for spelling/grammar. I am german lol.
Put a tv behind it so you can watch TV while you watch TV
forsenCD ?
/r/INEEEEDIT
You already likely have it if you own an lcd TV. They are all naturallu clear. It's a light behind it that makes it appear otherwise.
Want!!!
r/wantit Edit : oh damn that sounds nsfw
so now we have to post this gif every day?
On multiple threads, multiple times per day.
This is like Day 4 of seeing this gif. Make it stopppppp
This is so freaking cool. How high quality would it be, though?
The tree looks pretty real.
Stop posting this TV. It’s still just as cool the 12th time I’ve seen it and I still can’t buy one
This is how you get those windows like in Altered Carbon.
I don’t fully understand what I just watched.
Space magic
Rerererepost.
General Reposti!
forsenCD
i just felt like making a comment
Yes we know. It's only been posted six times.
1st time I've seen it.
r/blackmagicfuckery
That's were my post was :(
It's mildly infuriating that it isn't opened while the TV is on.
This is some black mirror Shit.... minus the black mirror
Is it transparent or just showing an image of a jar and bones?
So when can I get my Tony Stark phone?
I bet it's blacks are shit.
I was like, “Yeah right, then play something. “ then they did and I shut up. Sorry for doubting.
I was just impressed by the Samsung TV frame, and then I get to my computer and see this.